How to optimise routes in your delivery business

Delivery companies are enjoying a golden age. They save their customers a great deal of time – a commodity that is so precious today. The current situation is also playing into their hands, with many customers preferring to order food or goods from the safety and comfort of their own homes. To make deliveries more efficient, more and more companies are turning to software solutions. Why is this a real revolution, and what can such software help you with?

Your delivery business needs route optimisation software too

A dispatcher's job isn't easy. Every day, they have to take a large and often varied set of orders for that day and turn it into a distribution plan that is optimal in terms of both time and kilometres driven. On top of that, they have to allow for constraints such as driver breaks or deliveries at a precisely agreed time. The more orders there are, the worse the result of manual planning will be. People simply aren't machines. So leave route planning and optimisation to smart software, and you'll see that it brings many benefits for you and your customers alike.

Route optimisation pleases both you and your customers

What will probably please you most is that software-based route optimisation reduces the number of kilometres driven, and with it your fuel costs. Hand in hand with this, of course, come lower exhaust emissions and therefore greater social responsibility for your company. With software-based route optimisation, the capacity of your vehicles will be put to better use. No more aimless trips that only cause unnecessary wear and tear on your company vehicles. And most importantly, the overall quality of your services will improve, securing the satisfaction and loyalty of your customers.

What else route optimisation software can help you with

Route optimisation software today tends to be multi-purpose, and besides creating the ideal plan for your deliveries, it will help you with plenty of other things. For example, it monitors drivers' driving style and reports back to you. This lets you identify aggressive drivers who mistreat company cars and damage the company's good name into the bargain. Motivating drivers to drive economically and safely will, once again, save you money on fuel. Route optimisation software will also keep an electronic trip journal for you and keep an eye on drivers' safety breaks. In short, it is a revolutionary tool for every delivery company.

For route optimisation, choose Ecofleet

If you decide to invest in route optimisation for your company, Ecofleet software is here for you. Ecofleet offers a complete solution for managing your company vehicles and is designed for a wide range of users, from smaller delivery and parcel companies to larger transport companies. It uses artificial intelligence to optimise routes, saving you both time and money. It enables accurate real-time vehicle tracking, as well as monitoring of driving style and automatic trip journal keeping. In short, maximum efficiency and order for your business.